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Show LABOR RESENTS COURTDEGISIOM WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 Decisions of the supreme court In the Duplex Printing company and the steel trust cases 'support every claim mods b) organized labor on the attitude of federal courts when human rlshts. and dollars are Involved." Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of lahor. eaid Wednesday. In commenting com-menting on the opinion which declared declar-ed secondary boycotts a violation of the Sherman act. si ki;i, I R1 91 EXt l BE, "Compare with this position bv ihe supreme court lis refusal to dlasolvs the United States Steel Trust, bv sid. "The minority opinion in that case de- clared the trit was 'organized in plain Violation Olia bold defiance' of the anti-trust act. but the court refused to dissolve it because of a 'risk of injury in-jury to the public Interest; Including a material disturbance of and, it may be, I riou.s detriment to the foreign trade.' ' The court's decision In the Duplex machinists' ease Is the result of the efforts ef-forts of the machinists to improve conditions. con-ditions. They secured these conditions from three iarge printing press concerns con-cerns and these concern called upon the machinists to place the Duplex upon the same competitive basis. f That company refused, and to hold what they had in the other plants, machinists struck. m.iiW TO LABOR. "This movement should be indorsed indors-ed by every humane person and the policy of the Implex should be condemned con-demned J?ut the United States supreme su-preme court says that the boycott the workers' only weapon in this case j Is illegal and a violation of tho antitrust anti-trust act. because It interferes with interstate commerce." Mr. Morrison indicated that in his opinion ihe Duplex decision w;is t Inmost In-most severe legal blow that organized labor movement had received in many 1 . .j-Jl ' i Ken h .'I n d i ' ovttml i: cssarH H might be expected without delay. 1 1 k ol oo j |